taxation

English

Etymology

From Middle English taxacioun, from Anglo-Norman taxacion, from Latin taxātio (“rating, appraisal”). Surface analysis: tax +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tăk-sā'shən, IPA^(key): /tækˈseɪ.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

• Audio (US)

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Noun

taxation (countable and uncountable, plural taxations)

1. The act of imposing taxes and the fact of being taxed.
   • 2012 May 29, John Elkington, “Common threads in the Breakthrough Booklist”, in the Guardian‎^[1]:

     Some of this will be down to breakthrough science and technology, breakthrough business models and breakthroughs in behaviour change, but we also need an intensifying focus on public policy, in areas like accounting, reporting and taxation, the last spotlighted by Shaxson.

2. A particular system of taxing people or companies
3. The revenue gained from taxes
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Derived terms

• antitaxation
• detaxation
• double taxation
• ecotaxation
• hypertaxation
• maltaxation
• nontaxation
• overtaxation
• pretaxation
• retaxation
• taxational

 

Translations

act of imposing taxes and the fact of being taxed

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: հարկում (hy) (harkum)
• Belarusian: падаткаабклада́нне n (padatkaabkladánnje)
• Bulgarian: обла́гане с да́нъци n (oblágane s dánǎci)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 徵稅／征税 (zh) (zhēngshuì), 稅收／税收 (zh) (shuìshōu)

• Czech: zdanění (cs) n
• Danish: beskatning c
• Estonian: maksustamine
• Finnish: verotus (fi)
• French: taxation (fr) f, imposition (fr) f
• Georgian: დაბეგვრა (dabegvra)
• German: Besteuerung (de) f
• Greek: φορολογία (el) f (forología)
• Hungarian: adózás (hu), adóztatás, megadóztatás
• Italian: tassazione (it) f
• Japanese: 課税 (ja) (かぜい, kazei)
• Korean: 과세(課稅) (ko) (gwase)
• Lithuanian: apmokestinimas m
• Macedonian: оданочување n (odanočuvanje)
• Middle English: taxacioun
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: beskatning m or f

• Polish: opodatkowanie (pl) n
• Russian: налогообложе́ние (ru) n (nalogoobložénije), обложе́ние нало́гом n (obložénije nalógom), взима́ние нало́га n (vzimánije nalóga)
• Slovak: zdanenie n
• Slovene: obdavčevanje n
• Spanish: tasación (es) f
• Swedish: beskattning (sv) c
• Turkish: vergilendirme (tr)
• Ukrainian: оподаткува́ння n (opodatkuvánnja)

particular system of taxing people or companies

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 稅制／税制 (zh) (shuìzhì)

• Finnish: verotus (fi), vero (fi)
• Georgian: დაბეგვრა (dabegvra)
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌹𐌻𐍃𐍄𐍂𐌰𐌼𐌴𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 f (gilstramēleins)
• Greek: φορολογία (el) f (forología)
• Hungarian: adórendszer (hu)
• Indonesian: perpajakan (id)
• Japanese: 税制 (ja) (ぜいせい, zeisei)
• Korean: 세제(稅制) (ko) (seje)
• Malay: percukaian (ms)
• Russian: налогообложе́ние (ru) n (nalogoobložénije), систе́ма налогообложе́ния f (sistéma nalogoobložénija)
• Spanish: régimen fiscal

revenue gained from taxes — see tax revenue

See also

• render unto Caesar

Further reading

• taxation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Old French taxacion, borrowed from Latin taxātiō. Synchronically analysable as taxer +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tak.sa.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

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Noun

taxation f (plural taxations)

1. taxation

Further reading

• “taxation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Noun

taxation

1. Alternative form of taxacioun